In a dim haze, Ye Ying only felt an invisible giant hand gripping her body, pulling her soul and flesh toward the void.
Suddenly, her body lost all support.
It was as if the ground beneath gave way, plunging directly into the abyss.
She instinctively reached out to grasp sothing, but caught only a frigid void.
Just then, she felt a strong arm grab her shoulder, giving her body a simple point of support.
This temporarily cald her anxious and chaotic mind.
Subsequently, she felt her feet touch sothing solid, providing a support point for her unsupported body.
The hand that grasped her shoulder slowly released, and a gentle breeze brushed across her cheek.
Gentle—gentle—
As if like waves passing through rocks, the sound of water hitting gravel reached her ears.
"Teacher?" Ye Ying opened her eyes and looked forward, "Where is this?"
A vast and tranquil ocean appeared in her field of view, with waves passing through rocks and crashing onto the beach beneath her feet with a whistling sound.
"A hidden area."
A gentle whisper sounded in her ear.
He Ao looked up at the vast ocean, turned around, and looked behind.
Behind them stood steles, tens of ters high, arranged densely at the edge of the sea, like a deep forest of stone.
"Ah?" Listening to He Ao’s words, Ye Ying turned her gaze blankly and looked at He Ao beside her.
"Do you feel anything special now?"
He Ao turned around and looked at Ye Ying beside him.
He vaguely felt that Ye Ying did not seem so ’compatible’ with this world, which was a slight deviation from his initial estimate.
"Feel?" Ye Ying was slightly taken aback, then squinted her eyes slightly, her expression sowhat strange as she said, "Feels a bit, ’unfamiliar’."
"Unfamiliar?" Now it was He Ao’s turn to be slightly surprised.
"It’s like..." Ye Ying slightly frowned, "It’s like going to a completely unfamiliar ho as a child, where nothing was familiar to ,"
Her body tensed slightly, "A bit ’unfamiliar’."
"’Unfamiliar,’ huh." He Ao lowered his head, pondering the aning of the word.
"Yes," Ye Ying continued to try to explain, "It’s a very strange feeling, I’ve never felt this strong sense of unfamiliarity. Whenever I went to a new place before, I quickly adapted, but..."
She hesitated for a mont, glanced at the surrounding ocean, then turned to look at the towering monunt forest behind her, "I feel like I can’t adapt here, I feel like it might take a very long ti before I can fully adapt."
"How do you sense the ’attitude’ of ’here’?"
He Ao suddenly asked beside her.
"’Attitude’?" Ye Ying was slightly confused, not quite understanding what He Ao ant.
"Think back to your childhood state," He Ao thought, slowly guiding, "if you were brought to a completely unfamiliar ho by a friend. You felt ’unfamiliar,’ so how was the ’atmosphere’ of that ho? ’Friendly’? ’Suspicious’? Or so other feeling?"
"’Atmosphere’?" Ye Ying slightly frowned, mulling over the word He Ao ntioned.
She looked around the area again and shook her head slightly, "I can’t feel it, it seems neither dislike nor like, empty, with no obvious ’atmosphere,’ just like..."
She scratched her head, pondering, "No one ho?"
Hearing this answer, He Ao was slightly taken aback. He raised his head and looked at the vast blue sky.
The world inside the Trapped Destiny Plate had long been destroyed, and what exists now is rely a reconstruction on its ruins.
The soul of this world, along with its creator, had long been destroyed in the wrath of the Divine Being.
"Perhaps it’s not that no one is here," He Ao sighed softly, withdrawing his gaze, "but simply that the people are dead."
"Ah?" Ye Ying was confused again, then hesitantly guessed, "Teacher, have we co to a haunted house?"
"Not exactly," He Ao turned to look at the girl beside him, smiled, then turned to look at the monunt forest behind him, "there might not even be ghosts here."
He turned and walked towards the monunt forest, "Let’s go check it out."
He vaguely sensed that during their brief conversation, Ye Ying seed to be quickly ’accepted’ by this world, reducing the sensation of incompatibility significantly.
Although things didn’t go entirely as anticipated, they began to get back on track.
In fact, the changes induced by Ye Ying entering this world were even better than he had imagined.
"Ah? Okay!"
Upon hearing He Ao’s words, Ye Ying nodded and quickly followed He Ao’s actions.
The two swiftly crossed the beach, reaching near the monunt forest.
As they proceeded, collapsed structures resembling stone houses appeared in their field of view.
These stone houses encircled the monunt forest as if many people once resided around this monunt forest.
He Ao looked up and glanced around.
The surrounding area was desolate, with no rivers or fields, seemingly unsuitable for human habitation.
Either the environnt here had changed, or these steles held so unique ’attraction,’ prompting those who built the stone houses to live here despite higher living costs.
He Ao withdrew his gaze and continued forward.
Based on his experiences entering the Trapped Destiny Plate several tis, each entry wasn’t entirely random.
The places he had reached were, to so extent, strongly related to the martial arts civilization of this world, and perhaps, also deeply related to this world itself.
As if the ’obsession’ the world had left was guiding him to browse the remnants it left behind.
Browsing the gravestones of this world.
Soon, He Ao’s steps fully entered the monunt forest.
Ye Ying carefully followed behind him; although she was prepared to die, this current ’unfolding’ was sothing she never anticipated.
She even thought that He Ao might need to refine so Immortal Pill or Divine Artifact that required using life as a guide, never envisioning the current situation.
This place was so unfamiliar, filled with a sense of unfamiliarity that she began to doubt whether she was still in the real world.
However, these steles look quite intimidating.
She looked up at the surrounding monunt forest, cautiously moved a bit closer to He Ao.
At this mont, He Ao had already stopped in front of a tall stele.
On this gigantic towering stele were nurous dense drawings.
The drawings depicted a simple figure repeatedly changing poses, seemingly practicing sothing.
Within the drawings, images of mountains, flowing water, and even waterfalls often appeared.
"What is this?"
Ye Ying looked at the drawings on the stele in confusion.
"It should be a type of Body Refinent Realm."
He Ao lowered his head, looking at the bottom of the stele.
Within the drawing, the figure could now break a huge rock with a single strike.
This physical fitness should be around B-level.
Simple body refinent couldn’t reach this level; the image also incorporated a certain breathing cultivation thod, though not as good as the cultivation thod He Ao acquired the first ti he entered this world.
At the very bottom of the stele, a few simple inscriptions appeared, seemingly the na of the person who left this Body Refinent Technique.
He Ao reached out, his fingernail gently marking a scratch on the stele.
This stele material was extrely hard, at least B-level was required to leave a mark on the stele.
Just then, he noticed so lines hidden beneath so weeds at the bottom of the stele.
He kicked away the weeds, revealing the lines beneath the stele.
That seed to be a line of simple small characters, but the handwriting was completely different from the original inscription, as if soone made ’notes’ on this Body Refinent Realm. He Ao vaguely found the note’s handwriting sowhat familiar.
Ye Ying looked dizzily at the images on the stele; although she didn’t quite understand, through those drawings, she naturally understood so of the effects of the cultivation technique, "Teacher, is the thod on this stele trainable? Can this thod be used to cultivate into a Transcendent?"
"Yes," He Ao nodded lightly, casually explaining, "This thod trains muscles, bones, and skin. Once mastered, it can make you like copper skin and iron bones, smashing rocks and opening mountains, with strength equivalent to a C-level Transcendent."
"Is this thod good?" Ye Ying’s eyes lit up, and she asked cautiously.
"It’s very creative, worth considering, but it damages bones and muscles. By practicing this thod, your inner breath will be completely ruined, limited to C-level, and it will cause your Qi and blood to impact the brain, easily leading to sudden death in the middle age." He Ao shook his head and walked to the next stele.
Though he ca from an unconventional background, after cultivating to this point and constantly referencing progress, his martial arts prowess was already very high. In a brief glance, he had actually already figured out this cultivation technique.
"Oh." Ye Ying glanced at the stele with so disappointnt.
She followed behind He Ao and quickly reached the next stele.
This stele’s thod wasn’t as rigid as the first; the movents were very slow, and the little figure at the end was even specifically drawn with a beard.
Below it seed to be a signature, with a note that wasn’t written by the signatory.
This note, like the one on the previous stele, seed to co from the sa person’s hand.
"Teacher, this one seems to live longer," Ye Ying said happily.
"Hmm, this technique emphasizes regulating the inner breath," He Ao nodded slightly, "Those without talent who practice it can extend their lifespan, but its cultivation speed is very slow. Even talented individuals would find it difficult to reach D-level. The outer body is too weak and cannot break through internally, so reaching C-level is the limit."
After speaking, he turned around and continued forward.
"This one’s also not very good?" Ye Ying understood the implication of He Ao’s words and followed in his footsteps, continuing forward.
"Teacher, this one progresses fast!"
"It exhausts the body, seeks quick success, and shortens life."
"Teacher, this one... this one lives long and paces well, too."
"Progresses steadily, but the flaws are obvious; it went down the wrong path."
"Teacher, how does this one... kill people..."
"Seeking Tao by evil ans."
"Teacher, look at this one. It can create a fla like a flowing stream. Is it performing magic?"
"Hmm, an interesting application, very reference-worthy. This person probably reached B-level."
The two swiftly passed by the surrounding steles, heading towards the depths of the monunt forest.
The cultivation techniques depicted on the steles increased in level, from C-level to B-level, and beyond.
The thods that could provide He Ao with inspiration and reference also increased, and many ideas brought He Ao a sense of sudden enlightennt.
Apart from cultivation techniques, the steles occasionally presented so pioneering thods of using divine sense, giving He Ao the feeling of ’Divine Sense can be used like this?’
This monunt forest was like a grand ’library,’ recording the essence of the martial civilization of this world.
Soon, the two reached the deepest part of the monunt forest.
There were only three steles here.
These three steles stood at the deepest part of the monunt forest, distinctly set apart from the others.
Under the sunlight, they shimred with a strange luster, displaying colors entirely different from the other steles.
Soon, He Ao arrived in front of the first stele.
This stele was on the far left, painted with little figures.
On seeing this stele, He Ao was slightly taken aback.
This stele depicted the ’Cultivation thod’ he obtained from the stele fragnts the first ti he entered the Kunming Plate World. Through the strokes, it was faintly visible that both steles ca from the sa person.
Compared to the cultivation thod He Ao first acquired in the Kunming Plate, this stele’s thod was evidently more complete, with many corrected and improved omissions.
At the sa ti, this cultivation thod also had a full ’upgrade’ process for cultivation, reaching all the way to B-level.
Judging from its performance, He Ao thought this complete thod might touch the Incomplete Angel tier.
Compared to the cultivation techniques on the surrounding steles, this one was more refined, nearly integrating all the advantages of those thods.
He Ao looked at the signature at the bottom of the stele.
The handwriting was identical to the ’notes’ under each stele.
Clearly, the person who left this stele had completed their ultimate enlightennt in this monunt forest.
Standing beside He Ao, Ye Ying also noticed He Ao was intently observing this cultivation thod and stood quietly beside him without speaking.
He Ao carefully observed the movents in this cultivation thod, reflecting them against his own improved thod, then activated Super mory to rember all the contents of the thod.
Then he withdrew his gaze and looked at the next stele.
If he had ti, he would definitely practice this cultivation thod on the spot, but he didn’t have that much ti now.
The next stele was on the far right of the three steles, closest to the core of the entire monunt forest.
He Ao lifted his head and looked at this stele.
Then he saw a completely scratched stele surface.
Through those scratches, He Ao could faintly see so imagery related to ’killing people’ and ’alchemy.’
He instantly understood that this stele depicted the thod he had seen before, ’Killing People to Refine Pills, Corpse Disintegration Immortal.’
He reached out to touch the stele, his fingers brushing over the gleaming surface without leaving any marks.
The next mont, a bit of Power of Truth Eye extended to his fingertips, and he lightly swiped over it.
This ti, he left a mark on the stele.
This ant the stele required the power of the Incomplete Angel or Angel tier to inscribe.
At this mont, He Ao paused silently.
Judging by the habit of the scratch weights on the stele, they might co from the genius who created the leftmost stele’s cultivation thod.
That ’genius’ observed this stele, and he had enough power to leave a mark on it.
Then he destroyed the stele; he didn’t want this thod to be passed down.
Similarly, this stele also proved another matter.
That is, the original ’Killing People to Refine Pills’ person likely truly beca an Angel.
The thod was genuinely effective.
Therefore, the genius who created the cultivation thod did not want this thod to be passed down.
He Ao paused for a mont, withdrew his gaze, and continued forward.
This was the very center of the monunt forest, the central stele among the three.
A flowing luster brushed over this stele, revealing a glow both ancient and mysterious.
It was as if it had been standing here for unknown ages, from the dawn of the world to its eventual destruction.
He Ao stood before this stele, looking at it.
What unfolded before him was a blank expanse.
The stele bore no words or pictures, only a bare expanse.
Is this the ’answer’ of this world?
He Ao turned around, looking behind him.
At that mont, his gaze fell exactly on the back of the stele engraved with the cultivation thod.
There, so small figure paintings were startlingly present.
Within these depictions, the stick-figure seed to be attempting to ascend to the skies.
Then the entire scene abruptly ended there.
Beneath the picture, there were so fluently written characters.
Unfortunately, He Ao couldn’t recognize these characters.
But that wasn’t an issue; this martial art civilization’s script seed to be pictographic, and with enough character samples, he might attempt to decipher them.
That task would wait until he initially mastered the Kunming Plate.
He Ao turned his head to Ye Ying, who still seed a bit puzzled, and softly asked, "Do you still feel that unfamiliarity?"
At that instant, Ye Ying seed to realize sothing. She looked at He Ao and gently shook her head, "A little, but it doesn’t feel special anymore,"
He Ao extended his hand, signaling for Ye Ying to take hold, "Close your eyes, don’t let go."
"Alright."
Ye Ying went to His side, tightly clasping He Ao’s hand and closing her eyes.
He Ao retracted his gaze, turning to the vast blank stele in front, lifting his head to the sky.
Orange-gray radiance erged in his eyes, tracing gleaming nested rings within those deep, inky pupils.
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